The SL500 helps you save money and reduce your total cost of ownership. You can start with a cost-effective configuration designed to minimize management costs and grow easily to meet your current and future storage needs for capacity and performance — without increasing complexity or reducing reliability. You reduce storage management time, service costs and software licenses for multiple libraries.

By allowing you to consolidate storage across your operations and manage one scalable library, the SL500 also improves your bottom-line efficiency. The SL500 reduces business risk by helping to contain exposure of unpredictable backup requirements as environments change.

Lower total cost of ownership

The SL500 reduces the time you spend managing storage, service costs, and software license costs since you don't need multiple libraries.

Improve reliability

With elevator robotic technology, digital vision, and field testing, the SL500 has proven reliability.

Field Serviceable

All components are fully field replaceable.

Reduced complexity

After significant customer research, the SL500 was designed to be simple to manage with the following features: rackmount, easy scaling, remote management, and an op panel.

Save space, consolidate

The SL500 has a very high density for its footprint. And, the SL500 helps you consolidate several small libraries into one expandable platform while allowing you to choose the media that suits your storage needs, LTO or SDLT.

Enable cost-effective and scalable growth

The SL500 can easily grow from 30 to 575 LTO slots in a single rackmount confirguration; or it can accommodate mixed media with 24-494 LTO/SDLT slots. Throughput is scalable as well because you can select 1-18 drives.

Improve your SAN

The SL500 handles unpredictable growth with easy expansion modules as well as highly reliable native FC solutions.